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Members of the swim team from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota swim laps as steam rises from the pool at the Ft. Lauderdale Aquatics Center. Ft. Lauderdale set a new record low temperature for this date. Joe Cavaretta/AP Photo

Afghan men play football in front of the old palace in Kabul. Omar Sobhani/Reuters

Young Buddhist monks react to camera at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, India. Bodh Gaya is the town where Buddha is believed to have attained nirvana, or enlightenment 2,500 years ago. An year-long commemoration of the 900th birth anniversary of the First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa or the Karmapa lineage begins Wednesday. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo

Angelina, a seven-year-old Red Kangaroo, rests after receiving treatment for lumpy jaw disease at the Gan-Garoo Australian park, which features wildlife from Australia, near Kibbutz Nir David in northern Israel. Nir Elias/Reuters

Austrian artist Eva Schlegel walks in front of her installation with balloons 'Untitled' during a preview of her exhibition 'In Between' at the MAK museum of applied arts in Vienna. The exhibition open today and runs until the end of April 2011. Lisi Niesner/Reuters

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (r.) attends a wreath-laying ceremony at a monument dedicated to thousands of Soviet officers and troops killed during World War II while driving Nazi Germans from the city, in Warsaw, Poland. Medvedev was in Warsaw on a two-day visit to improve historically troubled relations. Czarek Sokolowski/AP Photo

Haitians carry goods in US-flagged bags to be sold at a market in Port-au-Prince. The Western Hemisphere's poorest state, which was devastated by a January earthquake and is battling a deadly cholera epidemic that kills dozens each day, is on edge a week after holding presidential and legislative polls. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

Caesar, a dog belonging to shoe designer Patrick Cox, has his claws painted during a publicity event to launch a pet spa at Harrods department store, in Knightsbridge, west London. Yui Mok/AP Photo

Jewish children chat during a celebration of Hanukkah and the lighting of the candles in the menorah at Sofia synagogue in Bulgaria. Known as the Festival of Lights, Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the re-dedication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Valentina Petrova/AP Photo

A demonstrator protests outside Government Buildings as the budget is announced, in Dublin. Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said the Irish economy was recovering from a deep downturn and on track for growth despite a tough austerity budget for 2011 that includes 6 billion euros in cuts and tax hikes. Cathal McNaughton/Reuters

Students from across the metro Atlanta area follow the lead of Atlanta Falcons outside linebacker Spencer Adkins during an attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the largest virtual physical education class in Atlanta. An adjudicator from the Guinness World Records verified that 2,288 elementary and middle students gathered at the Georgia Dome on Tuesday, setting the record for the largest virtual physical education class. David Goldman/AP Photo

Supporters of Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) wave party flags as they head towards an election campaign rally in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica. Parliamentary elections are to be held on Dec. 12, the first since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February 2008. Visar Kryeziu/AP Photo

A rescuer searches for survivors at La Gabriela neighborhood in Bello, northwestern Colombia. Thirty bodies have been recovered but over 100 people remain missing following a Sunday landslide that buried a large area of the Medellin suburb. The Red Cross attributes more than 180 deaths to floods and landslides caused heavy rains in Colombia so far this year. Luis Benavides/AP Photo

Environmental activists from different organizations perform outside the Pitaya Cancun Messe, where climate talks are taking place in Cancun. Countries in talks at Cancun are split over how to toughen existing pledges to cut carbon emissions, made at last year's Copenhagen summit which ended in a brief, non-binding agreement. Jorge Silva/Reuters

Two swans swim in the fog in the Oslofjord, in Norway. Hakon Mosvold Larsen/AP Photo